blessings of heaven above] That is, in the kindly operations of heaven from the Sunne and Moone, which are named in Moses blessing, viz. the precious fruits brought forth by the Sunne, and the precious things put forth by the Moone, Deuteronomy 33:14. with which the favourable and fruitfull influences of the Starres are implied; and from the heaven below, that is, in the sweet dewes and showers coming from the ayre, accoring to the promise mentioned in Ezekiel, I will cause the shower to come in his season, and there shall be showers of blessing, Ezekiel 34:26. and in the wholesome temperature of that element which is more necessary for health then good diet; for of this men feed but at certaine houres, of ayre (which they draw in with their breath) every moment: and in the blessings of heaven may be comprehended the fruitfulnesse of delicate fowle, who flye above the earth in the open firmament of heaven, Genesis 1:20. blessings of the deep] That is, Springs and Rivers, (which water the earth and refresh both man and beast) the usefull creatures that are in the waters: and since it appeareth, both by the benediction of Jacob, and Moses, that God meant very variously, and abundantly to blesse the Tribe of Joseph, the blessing of the deep that lyeth under may be in the Mines of the earth, whereof some are most necessary, some most precious. of the breasts and of] By multiplication of creatures, and of milke to nourish them: the blessing of the breasts is named first, because the nourishment is there provided before the creature be brought forth; for God in his fatherly providence (according to the Proverbe) never sends a mouth but he sends meat for it: of the joyning of these two (viz. the bringing forth, and breeding or nourishing) in one person, see Annotat. on Chap. 21. vers. 7.